Add products & prices

Add products & prices

After Creating a supplier account on iStockist, you can add products and prices to create your first store.

Add a product

1. Login using your email and password (if you do not have a supplier account click here to learn how to upgrade);
2. Click on Products in the left side menu.
3. Add a new product click on the blue plus button .
   • Required fields: enter the minimum required fields Unique Code & Product Name.
   • Prices: to start with, you can enter the default price to use through all of your stores. You can turn on different prices for different groups of customers, using Multiple prices below
   • Click‘Save’ to save the new product

Awesome, now that you’ve set up some products with prices, you can skip to the next step and add a group of customers! Or read more below on multiple prices per product, managing products, bulk uploading and automating product uploads.

Multiple prices per product

A supplier account can have different prices for each group of customers. Here’s how to turn it on:

1. Click the Settings Cog icon at the header, after that, at the left side menu click Advanced.
2. Under Multiple prices, click the switch to Yes
3. Go back to your products page and select a product, under Prices, click Edit Prices, a popup will appear where you can see one price field for each group of customers.
4. The value entered for each Group price field will overwrite the Default price of that product, and that is what customers will see.

Managing products

1. Additional product info:
• Additional product details: it’s often worth customizing the product with important information such as the product category, product images, the unit size or barcode.
• Advanced product settings: You can setup more advanced product settings using these guides:
  • Managing product categories
  • Custom product fields – to setting up additional product fields
  • Stock – to manage your stock on hand and allocated stock for one or more warehouses
  • Number of units
  • Minimum product quantity– to set a minimum quantity of product that must be ordered
2. Updating/deleting products
• Update an existing product: select it, make changes and then click Update to save the changes

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• Delete a product: using the Delete button at the bottom of the screen

Bulk csv uploaders and automated product updates

1. Bulk upload: you can edit your products, prices and stock in bulk using the products csv uploader
2. Products API: your finance or inventory system can automatically update your products, prices and stock via our products api or using our customizable FTP/XML or FTP/CSV schedulers.
3. Scheduled Imports/ExportsProducts API: your finance or inventory system can automatically update your products, prices and stock via using our customizable FTP/XML or FTP/CSV interfaces.

Awesome, now that you’ve set up some products with prices, let’s go to next step and add a group of customers!

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